Internship Code BAI-16-01: Baidu - Natural Language Processing R&D Engineer Host Company: Baidu Website: https://www.baidu.com Brief organization profile: Founded in 2000, Baidu, a Chinese language search platform, leveraging the booming Chinese Internet and search engine market , has dominated Chinese online ad market in 2007, generating RMB1.74 billion revenue with at 108% growing rate year on year. Respond to hundreds of millions of queries daily, Baidu represent approximately 70% of total online search queries in China. Over 150,000 small and mid-sized Chinese enterprises, large domestic corporations and Chinese divisions or subsidiaries of large multinational corporations have benefited from Baidu's online search marketing services. Beyond online search, Baidu continues its success in query-based searchable communities with Baidu's Post Bar (BBS) and Baidu Knows (Answers) representing two of the biggest communities in the world. Include size of organization, industry, current endeavors, and competitive edge. City: Beijing,China Total Number of Intern Position(s): 2 Work Hours: (Five days a week, ~June 20 – September 9, 2016) Five days a week, 40 hours a week, June 20– September 9 2016 we offer 75 yuan RMB per day for housing subsidy during 3 months internship period Housing availability? □ Yes Details: √No Details: Monthly intern stipend: 3000-4200 RMB Round-trip flight tickets? √ Yes Dress code: Ordinary Clothes Department: NLP(Natural Language Process); BDL(Big Data Lab);IDL (Institution of Deep Learning) Department Profile: NLP □ No Baidu’s Natural Language Processing(NLP) department focuses on technical fields like machine learning, machine translation, human-computer interaction and robot. Its mission is to develop products in the field of natural language processing, create company-wide tools and platforms, provide technology support and lead exploratory technology research. NLP is ultimately working to improve the efficiency of Baidu products and provide an intelligent core for the development of the Baidu search engine and other products. PS Baidu’s Page Searching (PS) department supports the core searching services, processes trillions of data, also connecting teams including Data Retrieving, Massive Data Process, NLP, Machine Learning, Data Mining, etc. The mission of PS is to provide the best Chinese SE and to let our user to reach the result easier and faster. Service covers PC,mobile, tablet, TV, etc. Work description: Please indicate details of the work the intern may be expected to perform during summer 2015. Please be as descriptive as possible. Our experience tells us the students work the best with specific projects. Work closely with the mentors at Baidu. The detailed work will be assigned, through discussing with mentors, after being accepted as interns. Natural language processing R&D engineer Develop next-generation Natural Language Processing technologies to tackle practical problems of Baidu products Intern qualifications: Natural language processing R&D engineer Please describe the required or desirable skills, education, personality, or other qualities you feel would best fit the position and your organization’s needs. Post Requirement: -Strong background and practical experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning/artificial intelligence/data mining/natural language processing/machine translation/information retrieval -Experience coding in C/C++, deep understanding of data structure and algorithm -Practical experience in web-related machine learning applications would be a plus -Strong background in mass data processing, distributed computing or high performance parallel computing would be a plus Desired intern seniority √Undergraduate Chinese language level Not needed, can perform √Graduate Basic reading, √ Either Intermediate reading, High levels of fluency needed needed (please check one): Additional comments: Please indicate if you have other particular wish, concern, consideration or plan about the program. (e.g., multiple interns working as a team, long-term recruit, etc.) Please also let us know anything special about your company’s positions & culture (e.g., long hours, travel involved, diversified culture, etc.) □ job with minimum language skills □ writing, and speaking (one-year level at Stanford) □ writing, and speaking (two-year level at Stanford) √ in reading, writing, and speaking (three-year level and above) We will offer possible job opportunity if the interns’ performance is good during the internship.